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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 18. July 30, 1968

Art for Arts

Art for Arts

Sir-Wellington Teachers' College have this year formed a Students' Association Arts Council to preserve and encourage the tradition of art within the College. The Council consists of seven student members, the staff of our Art Department, and has the Principal as its Patron. It will be a continuing body being elected each year.

The Council's principal aim is that of "promoting student activities in the arts and enraging a greater awareness of these within the College and the community". Its scope covers not only the visual arts but also literary, musical and dramatic; in other words, all forms of art that we find in the College. Already this year we have held an auction of works or art opened an art-and-craft shop at College every fortnight, produced a calendar for 1969 of drawings by Alan Howie, and published a collection of poetry by children from a Wellington school. We hope to encourage endeavour as well as ability in these fields by giving letters of recognition to student each year: it is not only talent but also enthusiasm in art which we seek to encourage.

One of our aims is to establish a Collection of art for our new college at Karori. To help towards purcahsing this we are holding an exhibition this week at the Dunhill Room, N.Z. Display Centre from Monday 29 July to Friday 2 August. We would like any students from V.U.W. who are able, to come along to the exhibition and to the auction of all the works of art on Friday 2 August at 7 p.m. The works are by students, staff and well known New Zealand artists.

We hope that our efforts to encourage awareness among students and in the community [unclear: -] will be sucessful.

Yours faithfully,

John Callon
(Secretary).